How to start a server and join your games via lan (Future is Bright, Studio normal 2017)

Start the server.

1. Open your place file with Roblox Studio on the server computer.

2. Navigate to the Test tab.

3. Change the player count to 0 if no one is playing on the server computer, or 1 if someone is.

4. Click the Start button.
   

5. You may get a window from Windows Firewall. Check all the boxes in the window and click Allow Access.
   

If you have seen the window before and quickly dismissed it...

You will need to go to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and delete all the robloxstudiobeta.exe rules, and then restart the test server, otherwise Windows Firewall might block other computers from connecting to your server.

1. Open your Start Menu and type Windows Firewall, then click Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security.
   

2. Navigate to Inbound Rules in the management window.

3. Find all the rules in the list that are named either RobloxStudio or robloxstudiobeta.exe.

4. Delete them.

1. Close your test server and client Roblox Studio windows, but leave your place file window open.

2. On that place file window, start the server again from the Test tab, and when the Firewall prompt shows up, allow access on all network types.

Get the server computer’s IP address.

You need to get your server computer’s IP address so that you can connect your other computers to your game server.

Follow the following steps to get it, or skip to the next section if you already know how.

1. Right-click on the Wi-Fi or Network connection icon on your task bar, and then click Open Network & Internet Settings.

2. In the window that shows up, click Change connection properties.

3. Scroll down until you find a field called IPv4 address.

4. Write down what you see next to it somewhere, unless you can stuff all of the numbers into your head! You’ll need these numbers later.
   

Connect the other computers.

You don’t have to do this on the server computer, as its Roblox Studio conveniently started a connection for you.

On each computer that will be connecting to the server, follow these steps:

1. Open the command line by pressing the Win + R keys, typing cmd into the window, and then pressing Enter.
   

2. To find where Roblox Studio is installed, on the desktop, right click on Roblox Studio, and then click Open file location
   

3. In the new file explorer window, click on an empty space on the address bar to get the folder location, and then copy it out.
   

4. Go back to your command line window, and then type the following command. Where <Folder Path> is the folder location you just copied from the other window. Paste it in by right clicking on the command line window or pressing CTRL + V. cd "<Folder Path>" For example: cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Roblox\Versions\version-da54286828a74527" Press Enter once you’re done typing it.

5. Type the following command and replace <IP Address> with the IP address of your server computer, then press Enter. RobloxStudioBeta.exe -task StartClient -server <IP Address> -port 53640 For example: RobloxStudioBeta.exe -task StartClient -server 192.168.1.22 -port 53640
   

Enjoy your LAN session!

[Advanced] Start the server from the command line.

If you want, you can start the server window from the command line like you would a client. Use this command as a template, but make sure to point -localPlaceFile to where a place file is located:

RobloxStudioBeta.exe -task StartServer -localPlaceFile "C:\ServerPlace.rbxl" -port 53640

You can copy the location of a file by right clicking it while holding Shift, and then clicking Copy as path.